Miami Lakes resident and Pace High School (Pace) senior Vanessa Perez-Robles, has returned from a collegiate experience at Yale University’s Yale Young Global Scholars Program. The aspiring engineer was selected among 6,000 applicants to attend the two-week intensive summer program held June 17 through 30 on Yale’s historic campus in New Haven.  “I was able to work alongside exceptionally bright students from...

  Students in Ada Romeu’s Pre-law class at Miami Lakes K-8 Center (MLK8) raised enough funds to purchase hundreds of pounds of food and toys for animals in the Miami-Dade Animal Shelter in Doral. Students submitted their charitable work to the Lead 2 Feed contest and received an Honorable Mention award.  “It is an honor to work with such enthusiastic students and parents who are willing to lend a helping hand to our...

  Jose Marti MAST Academy (JMMA) has been ranked as number 85 in the top high school national rankings for best high schools, according to the U.S. News. In addition to earning a gold medal, the school is also ranked as the twelfth best high school in Florida.  “As the principal of Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy, I am very proud to have been ranked so highly by a fully independent organization such as the U.S. News and World...

  Valeria Bula, a junior in Miami Lakes Educational Center’s (MLEC) Cambridge Journalism Program, was selected to three summer programs. She was selected to an MIT Engineering Outreach Program. She was one of 52 students selected nationwide to live and study at MIT for 6 weeks and take college courses ranging from architecture and humanities to physics, computer science and calculus.  Bula was accepted to the South Central...

  Two students from Monsignor Edward Pace High School (Pace) spent a few days of their break traveling to Boston for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders. Pace junior and Miami Lakes resident Diana Cao and sophomore Ulysses Del Pino served as delegates for the event which took place June 25 through 27. The congress was created by the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists to help solve the problem that many of...